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daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
Sometimes I think. Imagine if a company like google or facebook would implement something like anubis. And suddenly most people’s browsers would start solving cpu intensive constant cryptographic challenges. People would be outraged by the wasted energy. But somehow “cool small company” does it and it’s fine.
I do not think anubis system is sustainable for all the people to use it, it’s just too wasteful energy wise.
Tangent5280@lemmy.world 6 days ago
What alternatives do you propose?
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
Captcha.
It does all Anubis does. If a scrapper wants to solve it automatically it’s computer intensive, they have to run AI inference, but for the user it’s just a little time consuming.
With captchas you don’t run aggressive software unauthorized on anyone’s computer.
Solution did exist. But Anubis is “trendy” and they are masters in PR within some specific circles of people who always wants the lastest most trendiest thing.
But good old captcha would achieve the same result as Anubis, in a more sustainable way.
tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 6 days ago
“good old captcha” is the most annoying thing ever for people and basically universally hated. Talking about leaving the page, what do you think what will cause more people to leave the page, a captcha that’s often broken or something where people don’t have to do anything but wait a little?
Randelung@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Also universally useless. Image recognition solved Captcha ages ago and the new version from Google is literal spyware.
Chuppl has a great video essay on it. youtu.be/VTsBP21-XpI
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
They don’t have to do anything but let an unknown program to max their cpu unauthorized.
Imagine if google would implement that. Billions of computers running PoW constantly, what could go wrong?
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 days ago
but captcha is trash whose only purpose is to train ai for google
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
What?
You don’t need to use google, or cloudfare, captcha to have a captcha.